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Other post-apocalyptic books like The Road by Cormac McCarthy?
Posted on 5/15/20 at 10:21 am
Posted on 5/15/20 at 10:21 am
I guess I'm looking for tragedy, not necessarily science fiction.
I've read part of Alas, Babylon but couldn't necessarily get in the groove with it. It didn't really grab me like The Road.
I've read part of Alas, Babylon but couldn't necessarily get in the groove with it. It didn't really grab me like The Road.
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Posted on 5/15/20 at 10:43 am to Plague on Wheels
The Stand
Posted on 5/15/20 at 10:46 am to willeaux
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The Stand
Good one, I need to go back and try that one out again. I do like King, for the most part.
Posted on 5/15/20 at 10:50 am to Plague on Wheels
I liked all of the following, which give some variety to the genre:
Station 11 (Traveling troup of playmakers/circus type thing after apocalypse)-HBO is about to release a series based on this one.
Dog Stars (Dude in the mountains with his dog. Saw someone call it "a river runs through it meets the road" and that is an apt description.
Both are flu based apocalypse, so good quarantine reads.
Station 11 (Traveling troup of playmakers/circus type thing after apocalypse)-HBO is about to release a series based on this one.
Dog Stars (Dude in the mountains with his dog. Saw someone call it "a river runs through it meets the road" and that is an apt description.
Both are flu based apocalypse, so good quarantine reads.
Posted on 5/15/20 at 11:01 am to Plague on Wheels
One Second After by William Forstchen and the 2 sequals.
This post was edited on 5/15/20 at 11:16 am
Posted on 5/15/20 at 12:32 pm to Plague on Wheels
Swan Song by Robert McCammon. It was written - and takes place - in the 80s. So some of the book may seem dated. Still a great story though. Nuclear holocaust between the USA and Russia. The story follows the survivors, especially a special girl named Swan.
Posted on 5/15/20 at 12:50 pm to Plague on Wheels
Posted on 5/21/20 at 3:08 pm to Plague on Wheels
I just came to say The Dog Stars. Maybe. But man is there anything like McCarthy? I'm still looking for a book like No Country. And The road too now that I think about it.
Posted on 5/21/20 at 3:32 pm to Killer Kingcakes
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Station 11 (Traveling troup of playmakers/circus type thing after apocalypse)-HBO is about to release a series based on this one.
That’s what I came here to recommend. I’ll have to check out Dog Stars.
Posted on 5/23/20 at 11:11 am to boxcarbarney
I’ve been meaning to read that one. Boys life is a fantastic book by the same author
Posted on 5/23/20 at 7:54 pm to Plague on Wheels
On The Beach by Nevil Schutte
Posted on 5/28/20 at 4:55 pm to The Seaward
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I’ll have to check out Dog Stars.
Me too, not familiar with it but it's getting a few recommendations.
Posted on 5/29/20 at 9:28 pm to Plague on Wheels
Not all up to par with The Road but I enjoyed:
In the Country of Last Things
The Postman
The Day of the Triffids - Sci-fi but good
World War Z - better than the film
The Zombie Survival guide - humor from the same author as WWZ
The Walking Dead graphic novels
Cell - Stephen King
A Canticle for Leibowitz
Robopocalypse
The Andromeda Strain
The World Without Us - great non-fiction
High-Rise - J. G. Ballard
Alas, Babylon - I loved it
On the Beach
The Road - right up there as best
The Stand - of course a classic
In the Country of Last Things
The Postman
The Day of the Triffids - Sci-fi but good
World War Z - better than the film
The Zombie Survival guide - humor from the same author as WWZ
The Walking Dead graphic novels
Cell - Stephen King
A Canticle for Leibowitz
Robopocalypse
The Andromeda Strain
The World Without Us - great non-fiction
High-Rise - J. G. Ballard
Alas, Babylon - I loved it
On the Beach
The Road - right up there as best
The Stand - of course a classic
Posted on 5/29/20 at 9:59 pm to Plague on Wheels
Warhammer. Don't remember the author. Comet impacts the earth. The comet itself isn't that bad but the social upheaval tears society apart.
Also Warday by Whitley Strieber. Published in the eighties so a little bit dated. Journalist travels America in the aftermath of a US-Soviet nuclear exchange.
Also Warday by Whitley Strieber. Published in the eighties so a little bit dated. Journalist travels America in the aftermath of a US-Soviet nuclear exchange.
This post was edited on 5/29/20 at 10:03 pm
Posted on 5/30/20 at 3:31 pm to Plague on Wheels
This one is not necessarily a post-apocalyptic novel, but The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick (written in the 1960s, I think) is an alternate history where the Axis won the Second World War. I thought it would be worth mentioning here.
ETA: Describes life in America after an Axis victory
ETA: Describes life in America after an Axis victory
This post was edited on 5/30/20 at 3:33 pm
Posted on 6/2/20 at 8:36 am to JackSmith40000
Earth Abides is a classic. Must read Imo
This post was edited on 7/8/20 at 1:38 pm
Posted on 6/4/20 at 1:49 am to LSUbacchus
Just finished blindness by Saramango which somewhat fits.
Posted on 6/15/20 at 9:18 pm to JackSmith40000
The Postman is a must.
Posted on 7/7/20 at 7:52 pm to Plague on Wheels
Mary Shelley’s the Last Man
Posted on 7/8/20 at 7:30 am to Plague on Wheels
Mark Lawrence's Broken Empire Trilogy is a grimdark fantasy series that takes place on a post apocalyptic earth.
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